For those who wish to search for actual text within file directories
as in Windows 7 and previous, the advanced indexing dialogue provides
a list of all filetypes recognizable by Windows, which can be
selected and indexed by filename and file contents. It may take many
hours for Windows to index large hard drives with hundreds of
thousands of files, but the end result allows searching for any
textual string, obviously including file extensions. The search
result output is every file containing the text string.
I hope this helps someone else as much as it helps me, especially in
my academic research,
Orlando
At 02:44 PM 6/1/2018, JM Casey wrote:
>Right. I am not very familiar with Windows 7 because I only used it for a
>brief time at work. However I just wanted to add that in Win 10 at least,
>you don't even need to use the find command, because the search box is right
>there in your explorer window, ready to help you narrow down your file list.
>I just tested it myself by putting *.txt in the search box for my documents
>folder. All .docx, .pdf and other files disappeared from the list, and it
>automatically shows subfolders as well.
Orlando Enrique Fiol
Ph.D. Candidate in Music Theory
University of Pennsylvania
Professional Pianist/Keyboardist, Percussionist, Arranger, Performer
and Pedagogue
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